On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Erik Laxdal wrote: > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > Back in the day (read: before the latest firefox update), I used to be > > able to ssh to a remote box, run 'firefox -local', and have that box fire > > up its own firefox session even if I was running firefox on the system > > from I which I sshed. Those days seem to be gone. No matter what I try, if > > I've got firefox running on my local desktop, the remote firefox command > > just fires off another instance of the local firefox session. > > > > I've got several boxes running monitoring daemons reporting via http only to > > the localhost, so this was a handy feature for me. Is there any official > > way to get it back? If not, I guess I'll have to hack a 'localfirefox' > > script that doesn't do the nasty mozilla-xremote-client trick. > > > > Ah, progress... *sigh* > > > > As an alternative solution, why don't you take advantage of ssh's port > forwarding ability and use just your local copy of firefox to access the web > server as if you were local to the box. When you connect to the remote box, > use something like: > > ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 remotebox > > Then on your local box's copy of firefox point the url to: > > http://localhost:8080/ > > This should (assuming the network is slower than gigabit) provide you with the > fastest firefox response and use less resources on the remote systems. There > are other possible benefits such as, with multiple ssh sessions and different > port redirects (8081, 8082, ...) you could monitor daemons (different boxes) > from different tabs in a single firefox window. > > The one caveat with this is if you are using virtual hosts on the web server, > further tweaks to the local hosts file and the local firefox url will be > required. It's probably easier to use ssh -D 1080 remotebox and then configure localhost:1080 as your Socks server in firefox. Or you could use proxy extension that allows you to switch from proxy server with a single click. This allows you to use different Socks servers on different ports and switch between them using an extension. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]